She's also one of the few attackers with the new Hard Breach secondary charge, so things have really turned around for her. She's the perfect offbeat pick against a team that's underprepared at the start of rounds or doesn't cover important regions of the map. Now that she can ready her gun quickly after grappling through a window, she's a uniquely mobile attacker who excels and sudden entrances. But even when off the drone, Twitch sports a solid two-armor kit and the F2, one of the best weapons in the game.Īfter a year of hooking into an early demise, Amaru's 2021 buffs have finally arrived. The shock drone is a powerful way to gather intel while also hindering the enemy, a role that she now shares with Sam Fisher's wall-piercing Argus cameras.
It's hard to sneak the boxier, less maneuverable drone under the nose of a defense, and once it's there she needs to act fast: dismantling as many of the defenders' gadgets as possible before the jig is up. Twitch has what I consider to be one of the most thrilling roles in the game, because driving her shock drones is like its own metagame within Siege. On almost any composition, she’s an easy pick. Zofia brings more utility to the team at the cost of weapon power and speed, but it’s an easy tradeoff to work with. Her double-barreled grenade launcher has both impact grenades and concussion rounds that daze opponents when launched nearby. Zofia is a powerful support and fragger combo. Now that Thatcher can only disable every gadget, it's easier for his grenades to potentially go to waste on a poorly timed breach that Bandit successfully tricks. Thatcher’s 2020 rework does change things slightly, though. Against a savvy team, your hard breachers will be useless without Thatcher's support. Operators like Twitch can accomplish this task in riskier ways, but Thatcher’s EMPs make the job trivial. Most often, this is used to counter the electric reinforcement of Bandit and Kaid so that a hard breacher can penetrate the defense. His EMP grenades can be thrown on the outside of a wall to disable electronic devices in its large radius. The perfect wingman for a good attack, Thatcher sets ‘em up so hard breachers can knock ‘em down. Paired with her breaching grenade launcher that allows her to quickly open soft walls, she excels as a rusher who can overpower weaker defender weapons. Her greatest strength is the R4-C, which boasts all-around great stats with low recoil. His versatile kit makes him a solid pick in almost any situation, but his blowtorch does take practice to use efficiently.Īsh is FPS comfort food: a pure run-'n-gunner with a powerful rifle and a lot of breaching power. He excels at exposing Bandit batteries and Mute jammers on reinforced walls, but he can also dominate as a stealthy flanker, opening smaller murder holes to catch enemies off guard while his teammates draw attention from elsewhere. He cuts through walls with the subtle hum of his blowtorch instead of the piercing boom of a breaching charge. Maverick is a hard breacher like Thermite, Ace, or Hibana, but his playstyle couldn’t be more different. In a pinch, he can root out anchors, smoke off a defuser plant, or hard breach a path into site. Now that he's been gifted a secondary hard breach charge, he's the Swiss Army knife of support. Until recently, Capitão’s critical weakness was the lack of breaching. Bring one when you expect an enemy to pick an objective room with a soft ceiling, like Garage on Consulate.Ĭapitão’s crossbow is a treasure trove of utility, bringing smoke bolts and fire bolts that aren’t countered by Jager’s ADS and are pinpoint accurate. They’re both two-speed ops and both carry frag grenades, so the choice between them really comes down to the preference between Buck’s unmatched breaching speed and Sledge’s versatility. They both excel at soft breaching: Sledge with his titular hammer, and Buck with his rifle-mounted shotgun. Sledge and Buck are two sides of the same coin, both accomplishing the same goal in different ways.